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it is to vote -- we just defense. we defend our territory. >> the previous cease-fire held for 17 years the separatists are in conflict again. they have been fighting for 20 months. in the south, the president says he is committed to seeking peace. he has just met with the chinese deputies foreign minister to discuss the issue. he has not ordered any army assault. >> in order to gain peace over the country, there -- it is for the taking -- go through the red tape as quickly as possible. >> rebel groups have already agreed, but for now, the fighters are in their bunkers under fire and far from the negotiating table. >> rebels in colombia are calling for a new truce pin the government. it said it would begin fighting today -- again. a report from the valley, one of the main conflict zone. >> they enjoy the last hours of relative peace in the village. a stronghold for rebels. in the last two months, there has been a drop in skirmishes. now, the rebels' unilateral -- unilateral cease-fire is over. they wonder how long unt
it is to vote -- we just defense. we defend our territory. >> the previous cease-fire held for 17 years the separatists are in conflict again. they have been fighting for 20 months. in the south, the president says he is committed to seeking peace. he has just met with the chinese deputies foreign minister to discuss the issue. he has not ordered any army assault. >> in order to gain peace over the country, there -- it is for the taking -- go through the red tape as quickly as...
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. >> late last year, turkey asked nato for a missile defense system. the pieces of that system came off of the boat from germany. >> the military equipment is now in turkey and not far from the border in syria and the organization insists that the hardware stays in this country. nato says that they are not crossing the border to get directly involved in the conflict in syria. -- >> germany and the u.s. have agreed to send patriot missiles to germany. -- >> our mission is to protect the town, are ranged between nato and the turkish allies, so i don't see any involvement in any offensive action, that is not what we're here for. >> turkey insists that they can handle the rest of their defense. the war is just on the other side of the fence. the patriots will stop missiles, but they won't stop the more immediate threat of the stray bullets, but still, turkey wants the hardware. they are taking every measure to keep the country save. the patriots are expected to be operational by the start of next month. -- >> thousands of musicians marched down pennsylvani
. >> late last year, turkey asked nato for a missile defense system. the pieces of that system came off of the boat from germany. >> the military equipment is now in turkey and not far from the border in syria and the organization insists that the hardware stays in this country. nato says that they are not crossing the border to get directly involved in the conflict in syria. -- >> germany and the u.s. have agreed to send patriot missiles to germany. -- >> our mission is...
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out is her very hard line she's chosen to take against president obama's nomination for secretary of defense chuck hagel the man who could be called out for a million different things but instead has been demonized first amy made over six years ago well the organization just posted this full page ad in new york times yesterday calling into question hazels loyalty and labeling him as israel even going as far as saying it including a quote from alan dershowitz that suggests hagel quote speaks the language of the bigots of to iran. strong language and look i'm not calling out abrams for having an opinion that is more than entitled to but i am calling her out for blatant hypocrisy because the only reason chuck hagel is being smeared as anti israel is because he said this in two thousand and six he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i mean you noted state senator i'm not an israeli senator. true that so the reason the situation here reeks of irony is because rachel abrams is one of the most hateful human beings i've come across lately when she'
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law and that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike with a network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of a japan based news website james corbet however suggests alterian motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current content bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching up for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapon this is so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that with the four hundred kill it i mean old that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new funders around nuclear facilities or alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric
law and that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike with a network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of a japan based news website james corbet however suggests alterian motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current content bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a...
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defense chief leon panetta is on a weeklong tour in europe shaking hands for the last time to american military links while in spain his job they do was will be boosting the number of troops in the country basing out the your pain on to missile showed that international human rights nor. believes washington is stuck in a cycle it's simply called break. the american military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states being at peace in any type of permanent manner wars for the united states are a double sided sward on the one hand because the military industrial complex accounts for probably about seventy five percent of the american economy they produce an input to that economy on the other hand as we seen in afghanistan interact they also drain the economy on one side so it's almost a endless circle a have to continue off in b.'s interventions to be able to bring in the resources to be able to then say we're able to have new interventions and unfortunately that's been the story of the last. thirty or forty years so t
defense chief leon panetta is on a weeklong tour in europe shaking hands for the last time to american military links while in spain his job they do was will be boosting the number of troops in the country basing out the your pain on to missile showed that international human rights nor. believes washington is stuck in a cycle it's simply called break. the american military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states being at...
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it's been reported that russia's former defense minister could find himself in the center of a criminal case and i told you so the coffs know being investigated of relegations of abusing his power the probes already revealed that some top defense officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens at a military vacation facility belonging to city because brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a multi-million dollar investment scandal for several months now and literally sort of caught himself was fired by president putin in november and he's been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former colleagues. other world news of late rather talks officials from the u.n. nuclear watchdog are returning from iran without securing a deal on investigating suspected atomic bomb research i am spector's have been denied access to a military site which they've been trying to get inside for years or more talks show jule than in mid february now the u.s. and israel of long accused iran of efforts to develop nuclear weapons that's something that denies. greek lawmakers
it's been reported that russia's former defense minister could find himself in the center of a criminal case and i told you so the coffs know being investigated of relegations of abusing his power the probes already revealed that some top defense officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens at a military vacation facility belonging to city because brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a multi-million dollar investment scandal for several months now and literally...
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you bet, but the fight is going to be over chuck hagel for secretary of defense. that is going to be a proxy battle between what you might call the know 0-conservatives, the bush ii folks, mccain, lieberman, lindsey graham, and the others and what hagel stands for, john, is non- interventionist foreign policy. we don't go to war unless vital interests are at stake. we put our own country first. i think this is going to be the battle royal in the coming months. >> eleanor. >> nobody is a shoe-in with the republican party that fails to defeat president obama for reelection but still seems determined to make him a failed president but jacob lew is as close to a shoe-in as there can be. the only complaint you hear is that he hasn't spent enough time on wall street, and for a lot of democrats that's actually a positive attribute. so he will be confirmed. and i believe senator hagel will also be confirmed, although that's a bigger fight, and his remarks about israel that somehow he isn't tough enough on israel, his objection to sanctions was that they were unilateral. h
you bet, but the fight is going to be over chuck hagel for secretary of defense. that is going to be a proxy battle between what you might call the know 0-conservatives, the bush ii folks, mccain, lieberman, lindsey graham, and the others and what hagel stands for, john, is non- interventionist foreign policy. we don't go to war unless vital interests are at stake. we put our own country first. i think this is going to be the battle royal in the coming months. >> eleanor. >> nobody...
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defense secretary leon panetta is on a week long trip to europe to discuss close military link ups it includes a visit to spain where washington is looking to double its defense presence this year spanish international affairs experts believe this is just one part of america's push to extend its worldwide influence. you have to take into account that there are two strains of thought within diplomatic circles in the united states or one of them is that they have to and the most serious danger comes from the east from china and saw they feel it should reinforce their military and political presence in asia the other strain and leon panetta and president obama are part of it says that the u.s. has to be present in the world so the operation and therefore they also have to deploy them to missile defense shield as a provocation against russian. regime change comes at a high cost a recent study of the arab spring has revealed that the egyptian syrian and libyan revolutions could set those countries back some two hundred twenty five billion dollars middle east economic analyst thinks that th
defense secretary leon panetta is on a week long trip to europe to discuss close military link ups it includes a visit to spain where washington is looking to double its defense presence this year spanish international affairs experts believe this is just one part of america's push to extend its worldwide influence. you have to take into account that there are two strains of thought within diplomatic circles in the united states or one of them is that they have to and the most serious danger...
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it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting a kind of and i'm going to this problem as a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have are not going to look through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite the contrary chaos spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from . interventions before that the french intervention will actually tend to send ripples of disorder further around the region. now you mentioned ripples of disorder and this backwash if you will what security measures are now being taken to counter further attacks like this. well i think the the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just really numbers of guards would not apply to that bay are the same places here on all sides what
it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting a kind of and i'm going to this problem as a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have are not going to look through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place...
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well the french defense minister said quote the goal is the total reconquest of mali what's now see if france can avoid a drawn out campaign as president francois hollande hopes for at the start of the invention and if we take a look at the map here we can see of that. link rebels and local to reckon surgeons control the north of the country and the area is marked yellow here on the map in fact if you look at it closely it's quite big and it's almost as big as the size of france and some of some of the weapons used by mali's insurgents came from the french led overthrow of the khadafi regime in libya france itself air dropped arms to the libyan rebels while gadhafi is arsenal was also right after his fall and now there are concerns about libyan smugglers taking more arms through jury and into mali all this could make it difficult for france to fully secure the area in a short amount of time as it initially planned at a national relations professor mark almond says the current situation in mali could lead to even further unrest across the region. we're getting a kind of and i would add
well the french defense minister said quote the goal is the total reconquest of mali what's now see if france can avoid a drawn out campaign as president francois hollande hopes for at the start of the invention and if we take a look at the map here we can see of that. link rebels and local to reckon surgeons control the north of the country and the area is marked yellow here on the map in fact if you look at it closely it's quite big and it's almost as big as the size of france and some of...
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department of defense when i was in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives but they didn't have i didn't have anything to say about someone needs to represent that perspective in our government as well the people in washington make the policy. but it's the little guys who come back in the body but the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fates holidays and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . sometimes they come though the clothes you wear decides whether you live or die i owe a report on the violent gang wars and the us towns here interesting and. could be the ever. gone. left nothing to live. for precious children. like. roger shoulders. leave it's. on our to. russia would be soon which bryson if you knew no bounds to move
department of defense when i was in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and a lot of people who lost their lives but they didn't have i didn't have anything to say about someone needs to represent that perspective in our government as well the people in washington make the policy. but it's the little guys who come back in the body but the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the...
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and i see chuck hagueal is confirmed as secretary of defense. he's going to be pushing for a new series of cuts i believe that will take us down this sort of pat path. he feels the defense department is too bloated and the fiscal health in this country has to involve further reductions to our military. we saw peace dividends after the cold war. pulling our troops out of afghanistan and out of iraq. we thought new approaches to contain al-qaeda and other terrorists organizations with drones, special forces activity, then perhaps it's time to start looking at right sizing the defense budget. >> schieffer: do you think chuck hagel is going to be confirmed. there's going to be a real fight here. >> i think it's going to be a nasty fight. a lot of mud will be sludge slung. he's facing the senate where many voting for him were not people he served with, newcomers to that body. i think ultimately he will get the necessary democrat support and that from a handful of republicans to get confirmed. >> agreed. folks i've talking to suggest it's an even bigg
and i see chuck hagueal is confirmed as secretary of defense. he's going to be pushing for a new series of cuts i believe that will take us down this sort of pat path. he feels the defense department is too bloated and the fiscal health in this country has to involve further reductions to our military. we saw peace dividends after the cold war. pulling our troops out of afghanistan and out of iraq. we thought new approaches to contain al-qaeda and other terrorists organizations with drones,...
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east and russia who are convinced the reason we're going after syria and assad is because he is the defense. we take syria the next step is taking iraq and then conceivably we will try to take more control of a russia that was the fear of the russians because russia has a lot of oil and gas and it's raising its head again and i don't know that's conjecture but certainly we what we do know is that we see iran as a country. with tremendous resources in terms of oil and gas and in a very crucial position geographically speaking and also a country that's threatening to sell oil for something other than dollars and we don't like it that undermines our whole system of currency here and try to reserve it whenever needed are certain to do that is can they do the same that it now is the iranians you know and we take great exception i don't believe that iran is really about the nuclear issue so much as it's about a much larger geo political economic issue absolutely have course in a funding of hamas hezbollah these are things that are have a thorn in the side of the establishment let's say in terms o
east and russia who are convinced the reason we're going after syria and assad is because he is the defense. we take syria the next step is taking iraq and then conceivably we will try to take more control of a russia that was the fear of the russians because russia has a lot of oil and gas and it's raising its head again and i don't know that's conjecture but certainly we what we do know is that we see iran as a country. with tremendous resources in terms of oil and gas and in a very crucial...
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it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really looked through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send recalls of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just relieved numbers of guards would not apply to that bay of the same type of places here on all sides what seems to be really probably is there to be insofar as the mali events for the sparklers nobody seems to think that perhaps for you come from somewhere other than m
it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really looked through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite...
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well the french defense minister has said quote the goal is the total reconquest of mali let's now see if france can avoid a drawn out campaign as president francois hollande hopes for at the start of this intervention it would take a look at them out we can see that al-qaeda linked rebels and local tore against surgeons are in control of the country's north that's this yellow colored here that area is as big as france itself now some of the weapons used by mali insurgents actually came from the french led overthrow of the gadhafi regime here in. libya france and south airdrops arms to the libyan rebels while gadhafi is arsenal was also raided after his fall and now there are concerns about libyan smugglers taking more arms through algeria and they're in to mali well this could make it difficult for france to fully secure the area in a short amount of time as the president hopes international relations professor mark almond says the current situation in mali could lead to even further on ras across the region we're getting a kind of and i look into this problem as a kind of backwash fr
well the french defense minister has said quote the goal is the total reconquest of mali let's now see if france can avoid a drawn out campaign as president francois hollande hopes for at the start of this intervention it would take a look at them out we can see that al-qaeda linked rebels and local tore against surgeons are in control of the country's north that's this yellow colored here that area is as big as france itself now some of the weapons used by mali insurgents actually came from...
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man who had the code name of denise alex has been held captive since two thousand and nine the french defense ministry believes he is no longer alive. and israeli police have arrested more than a dozen palestinian protesters when they attempted to return to a camp in the west bank last week dozens of demonstrators constructed a tent camp on an area that israel has marked for new settlements which was then cleared by security forces protesters announced they want to create. a village that israel's decision to go ahead with its plan to build new settler homes in the west bank has been widely condemned and is illegal under international law. well just a bit later in the day here on r t we talk to a former legal advisor to the palestinian negotiating team he says there are no chances of success for the middle east peace process that of being under the current israeli leadership. means there's a crisis of leadership but there's a bigger crisis of leadership in among the israelis we have an israeli prime minister who go to extreme lengths to continue to build and expand israeli settlements who does
man who had the code name of denise alex has been held captive since two thousand and nine the french defense ministry believes he is no longer alive. and israeli police have arrested more than a dozen palestinian protesters when they attempted to return to a camp in the west bank last week dozens of demonstrators constructed a tent camp on an area that israel has marked for new settlements which was then cleared by security forces protesters announced they want to create. a village that...
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brussels all yuri skeptics often forget is that margaret thatcher balance those warnings with a staunch defense of britain's place at the heart of. the truth is though that these days and that speech will be a hard sell it's growing and. sentiment it's uncertain whether he'll even be able to keep the days within his a party rest of us sidelined for can't believe this is going on here for angry family squabble all out in the open i mean destroyed the tory party with so much riding on this speech he tries to please everyone i think. the very real risk of pleasing no one to. say the time has come for the big you are delayed so many times already it's being nicknamed the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech it's now expected you get some more sarah. london when it looks like the speech is staying true to its name has been delayed again we just learned that the prime minister has responded due to the hostage situation in algeria it hasn't been announced when it will now go ahead that speech but we'll let you know as soon as we find. and in a few minutes from now we've got more in the u.k. but y
brussels all yuri skeptics often forget is that margaret thatcher balance those warnings with a staunch defense of britain's place at the heart of. the truth is though that these days and that speech will be a hard sell it's growing and. sentiment it's uncertain whether he'll even be able to keep the days within his a party rest of us sidelined for can't believe this is going on here for angry family squabble all out in the open i mean destroyed the tory party with so much riding on this speech...
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just the defense budget itself. we spent $2.70 trillion above that base line, including for inflation, since 9/11 to make americans feel safe, and that is justified in many ways, but we are not having an honest discussion with the public. we are not looking at the security and the trade-offs that are happening, and we have spent a huge amount of money, but americans have not been feeling as safe as they should. he made comments, probably on c- span, as well, that you are not unpatriotic to ask questions of your government. it is patriotic to ask these questions. we should be having these debates and dialogues, and i think he is trying to make that. host: gary schmitt? guest: yes, i think many made comments, but the answer was not, let's get out and cut defense. the bush administration -- it was not until 2006 and 2007 -- something proposed in 2003, but they wasted several years, and there are plenty of criticisms for that waste. cut and run. the idea was to do precisely what we did. increase the force levels and cha
just the defense budget itself. we spent $2.70 trillion above that base line, including for inflation, since 9/11 to make americans feel safe, and that is justified in many ways, but we are not having an honest discussion with the public. we are not looking at the security and the trade-offs that are happening, and we have spent a huge amount of money, but americans have not been feeling as safe as they should. he made comments, probably on c- span, as well, that you are not unpatriotic to ask...
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some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against a strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the word but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table coming out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course or drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia that will be very much to israel's liking will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for. coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran john brennan has been in charge of president obama's targeted assassinations program is a point of push the notorious war on terror in a different perspective and shows that it's far from over they want wars that will not redound aga
some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against a strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the word but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table coming out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who...
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have the very worrisome deployment of american missiles in turkey as if it were turkey that needs a defense against syrian aggression rather than the other way around the real key here is will the obama administration especially with the departure of hillary clinton which i take is a very favorable development will it take off the table the after your demand that bashar assad must step down before negotiations can move forward i think if we were to back away from that the prospect of a negotiated settlement could be opened up but we're not there yet where i will let's suppose i mean if the intervention does go all the way to pad is the obama administration to deal with a post assad syria. i do you know i don't think i don't think they're prepared to deal with that at all one of the problems with the various american led interventions over the years whether we're talking about bosnia kosovo libya and hopefully not in the future syria is that the goal mediately defined comes first and then worry about the consequences later is something that is not fully taken into account we look at for exam
have the very worrisome deployment of american missiles in turkey as if it were turkey that needs a defense against syrian aggression rather than the other way around the real key here is will the obama administration especially with the departure of hillary clinton which i take is a very favorable development will it take off the table the after your demand that bashar assad must step down before negotiations can move forward i think if we were to back away from that the prospect of a...
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our responsibility as our room states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is completely anachronistic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirteen look set to be an important year and what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people these are all of the arty belin. and the rounds nuclear negotiations still going nowhere this week factors tom broke down with no agreement but the western sanctions put a further drain on struggling citizens a week before shortly. but syria real for after tuesday's violence that killed dozens of people at a univ
our responsibility as our room states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is completely anachronistic there appear to be historical cultural...
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the team forms the first and last line of defense. half of their training is for heading in undercover to arab villages, snatching militants before they can meet the accomplish along the fence. with if political situation in egypt becoming more hostile toward israeli, the men guarding this border realize they have to be right 100% of the time. the men wimping to attack them and the country only have to be right once. >> bret: thank you. army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 afghan villager last year was in a military courtroom near seattle today. he deferred making a plea. the judge said he would order him to undergo mental health evaluation. the soldier's lawyer says he has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. we'll look back at the president's record on actual gun control shrote votes. does the president's gun control initiative compare to some of the defining moments in history? the grapevine is next. music: "make someone happy" music: "make someone happy" ♪it's so important to make meone happy.♪.♪it's
the team forms the first and last line of defense. half of their training is for heading in undercover to arab villages, snatching militants before they can meet the accomplish along the fence. with if political situation in egypt becoming more hostile toward israeli, the men guarding this border realize they have to be right 100% of the time. the men wimping to attack them and the country only have to be right once. >> bret: thank you. army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16...
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thorton rose to the defense of the man who allegedly tried to kill her and said, i know this boy. he grew up in my house under know he would never intended to harm me. he was a drunk but he never raised an ax against me. he was convicted anyway, but because of her persistent desire to free him, she managed to get a pardon from president jackson, and arthur bowen was saved from execution. >> so he received a pardon from president jackson. what was your connection to the president? >> she was the widow of a man named william thorton who was the man who have designed the u.s. capital. william thorton was a friend of george washington, a friend of thomas jefferson. she was friends with the dolly madison and james madison. and so she had entrÉe to the white house. share the ability. she is all of her connection to rescue this boy from death row. >> you have a very particular title, "snowstorm in august." so what's the snowstorm? >> the snowstorm was the name local people gave to the riots afterwards. because the right, one of the targets of the ride was a man named beverly snow, a fre
thorton rose to the defense of the man who allegedly tried to kill her and said, i know this boy. he grew up in my house under know he would never intended to harm me. he was a drunk but he never raised an ax against me. he was convicted anyway, but because of her persistent desire to free him, she managed to get a pardon from president jackson, and arthur bowen was saved from execution. >> so he received a pardon from president jackson. what was your connection to the president? >>...
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this will be the secretary of defense. this is about deploying power or run the world and managing strategic assets and managing a shift where the president has said that we now have or did we have overweighted our resources in the middle east and south asia and we have underweighted our presence in asia looking at china. that shift is like moving a giant ship of spending, resources, american men and women being deployed in different places, as well as strategic asset purchasing, what weapons and technologies. and as we bring down the defense budget, smart choices need to happen so that at the end of the day, the department of defense is able to bring security to the world, that we have got the same degree of security deliverable then that we would. it is not a function of money. you need someone who understands. chuck hagel having been a combat veteran, two purple hearts from vietnam. that is very important. this is a man who understands the nature and structure of military organization. i think that is what i think will
this will be the secretary of defense. this is about deploying power or run the world and managing strategic assets and managing a shift where the president has said that we now have or did we have overweighted our resources in the middle east and south asia and we have underweighted our presence in asia looking at china. that shift is like moving a giant ship of spending, resources, american men and women being deployed in different places, as well as strategic asset purchasing, what weapons...